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When Jeffrey Race boarded a ship to Vietnam in 1965, he was not planning to write the ultimate resource on the Vietnamese conflict. As he notes in a recent article in Small Wars Journal, he had envisioned a quiet life teaching political science in New England, but history took a different course. In the article [more...]  In this post, Stein Tønnesson, author of Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, recalls a debate he had with a colleague about events leading up to war between France and Vietnam, and whether or not war was inevitable. __________________________________________________________ Last year I shocked my colleague David G. Marr, who is working on a monumental study of [more...] Stein Tønnesson wrote to us from Oslo about launching his book, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, at a press conference in Hanoi. When Vietnam 1946: How the War Began was launched with a lunch and press conference in Hanoi on 30 November 2009, many veterans and Vietnamese historians raised objections to my claim [more...] Paul A. Cohen is Professor of History Emeritus at Wellesley College and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. In his book, Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China (UC Press, October 2008), he analyzes the relationship between past story and present reality in modern day China, where [more...] On Sunday, June 29, 2008, The Washington Post posted an article by William J. Dobson called Lessons Learned. The subject of the article talks about how the leaders of China’s Communist Party can learn from the mistakes of the former Soviet Union. Dobson based his opinion on David Shambaugh’s ideas from his book entitled, China’s [more...] This week, UC Press is pleased to announce the start of a brand new author podcast series. The podcasts can be found on our podcast page. The series is produced by Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions, and the initial show features interviews with UC Press authors Gayle Greene, the author of Insomniac, and [more...] |
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